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Scleractinian coral diversity in Indian reefs, their threats and conservation

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Title Scleractinian coral diversity in Indian
reefs, their threats and conservation
 
Creator George, Rani Mary
Jasmine, S
 
Subject Coral Reefs
 
Description The value of coral reefs, both for the biosphere and human
species is well established. Reefs are centres of high biological
productivity, sites of CO2 sink, ecosystem of very high
biodiversity, shore line protectors, source of huge deposit of
CaCO3, centres of scientific research; additionally they provide
us with many natural raw materials for pharmacological
products or life-saving drugs. The values of coral reefs as
tourist spots are also all the more important. However, it
seems that we in this country, except for overexploiting the
limestones and resources they harbour, made very little efforts
to utilize them in the correct perspective.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10411/1/06_Rani_Mary_George.pdf
George, Rani Mary and Jasmine, S (2015) Scleractinian coral diversity in Indian reefs, their threats and conservation. [Teaching Resource]